rachels.haven's Journal

[rachels.haven]

I have chips. I think I can let him know when I need more and he'll probably get me some within the week.

 

[rachels.haven]

Mark came home from Bring Your Child(ren) To Work Day with the big boys and the Shaun and I were "working". We worked until my arms were tired and I remembered I forgot to eat lunch-maybe a little over 2 hours. The pile is a lot shorter now.

 

[rachels.haven]

Today I got around to pulling cidrs on the experimentals. Nubian-Lamancha experimentals-NEVER AGAIN. Apparently they liked having sticks up their butts. I almost let them keep them. 120lbs stupid goat rodeo. Grrrr.
The mini experimentals were mostly fine except for Dan's doe, Precious, who needed to be told she was fine and forced to be that way. Apparently any goat Dan names becomes a pain.

So I guess unless things change the plan is probably going to be breeding the la-nube's and keeping just the kids because I don't want to do that anymore! Not everything is fun when you're a dairy goat (hoof trimming, bolusing, milking when sore...the list goes on and on) and they still have to be docile and low adrenaline enough to be willing to do it.

Why do Nubians exist?

 

[rachels.haven]

I attempted to put the bottle baby Lamanchas in the pasture for the day. They wouldn't stop bombing the electric fence. And then one just jumped over and cleared it (Cookie saw and began thinking very hard and became obsessed with getting closer and closer to the spot so I chewed her out and shut them out of the electric fence part) and the kid ran into the barn and hid in the stall next to theirs so I gave up and brought them all back in and it looks like I need to regroup to conquer this. 13 week goats can fly even though they are fat.
Here are this week's weights. Down to one bottle except for the mini Saanen, who is the 19 pounder at the bottom.

 

[Baymule]

Flying fat baby goats! Hahaha!

 

[rachels.haven]

Earlier I sent in a mastitis culture on lopsided Emmi and Snooter, the two does with the highest SCC count on test, for $8/sample+overnight shipping to the state lab. Snooter is clear and going back on my line. Sometimes FF just spike for a month or two and then go back down. Emmi has a different type of staph in either side, but neither are aureaus. I also got a sensitivity test and both types of Emmi Staph are very susceptible to all antibiotics. I'd already started shooting Emmi up with today this week and noticed a difference in mamary tissue at the top texture, so I'll do it just a bit longer to be sure. She seems to always freshen with mastitis but it often goes away and then comes back at the end. She's the one with the probably blown udder and her teats touch her legs and I probably won't be breeding her again. I have 4 daughters to sort though. I sort of need to keep Emmi in milk though, preferably consumable milk because Emmi is one of those does that refuses to stop milking no matter what even if she wasn't freshened lately, which is fine because the world doesn't need any more Emmi kids(she has a couple of other semi transferable defects).

 

[Baymule]

Do you have honeysuckle on your place? Honeysuckle leaves have natural antibiotic properties, just wondering if eating honeysuckle would help Emmi’s mastitis. A retired nurse and herbalist friend of mine told me that honeysuckle helps against staph infections.

 

[rachels.haven]

Do you have honeysuckle on your place? Honeysuckle leaves have natural antibiotic properties, just wondering if eating honeysuckle would help Emmi’s mastitis. A retired nurse and herbalist friend of mine told me that honeysuckle helps against staph infections.

Not really, but I'll keep my eyes open for it. Goats love honeysuckle.

 

[Baymule]

Might be a good idea to plant some—away from the goats!

 

[fuzzi]

Not really, but I'll keep my eyes open for it. Goats love honeysuckle.

It's EVERYWHERE here!